Games That Mean a Lot to Me: One Last List
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Despite reaching consumer hands in 2016, virtual reality still seems trapped in a perpetual infancy. The hardware of the headsets is being slowly iterated on, with new options like the Oculus Quest or the Valve Index releasing every handful of months. In the interim, major software releases have slowed to a crawl. It’s what makes something like SIE London Studio ’s Blood & Truth somewhat exciting. Some money got…
It’s easy to be reductive about the state of AAA development these days. The idea that more and more big games are taking the approach of taking elements from this game and that, spinning them to fit the theme and narrative the developers are putting forward, and booting them out the door holds water at first glance. And at first glance, Insomniac ’s Marvel’s Spider-Man seems to continue the trend. It’s an…
Like a plucky underdog against a dominating monster, Fire Pro Wrestling World is rough around every edge relating to presentation and usability, but if you’re able to get past all of that, there is championship gold hidden beneath the surface. One of the biggest strengths of Fire Pro Wrestling World is its character creation system. It’s simple enough that anyone can start to go in and create themselves, their…
In late 2016, Ubisoft ’s chief creative officer and man arrested for sexual harrasment Serge Hascoet made the rounds with a quote, saying that the company will focus less on scripted narrative and more on “living worlds.” The idea, he went on to say, was to create games to be “anecdote factories,” where the moment-to-moment gameplay driven by the player’s actions in the world becomes more important than any…
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Mar 20, 2019
You say that, but the number of times I end up back in New Gridania is moderately embarrassing. We've done it. We survived. Our 45 day free trial is essentially over. There's one more day left on it, technically, but whatever. I mostly stuck to an MMO for a month and a half and lived to tell the tale. Last week , I switched jobs over to thaumaturge, a wrecking ball of magical destruction. This...
Mar 13, 2019
Fly on, Stringfellow. A pirate's life for me in Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn , as we take on Leviathan and move on to the next primal fight after that for our grand finale! Is what I would say if I did any of that. Fact of the matter is, the main story quests just started to grate on my nerves. I was tired of the mandatory primal fights and dungeons, as exemplified by last week 's Good Ki...
Mar 6, 2019
You came to the wrong neighborhood, kupo. My time with Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn draws ever closer to close, as we continue to run through more transitional content between expansion packs. As mentioned last week , this is definitely not something I see myself returning to. In the intervening week, I only did a grand total of fifteen quests, covering the end of Good King Moggle Mog XII...
Feb 27, 2019
Pictured: my view for entirely too much time spent in FFXIV this past week. We're just about over the hill in terms of my writing about Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn . Which is good, because there's not only not a lot of free time left from Twitch, but I'm starting to get a little tired of the game as well. This entry may be a bit shorter, as a result, as I didn't really play that much ove...
Feb 20, 2019
Hi, I'm TFP. I spent another week playing Final Fantasy XIV - A Realm Reborn , and I figured I'd continue writing about it until the Twitch Prime trial ended. Last week , I became an adventurer, talked to a crystal, hung out with cool thieves, then became a ninja. This week, I did a whole lot more of the same, except this time with added base-game level cap hitting. Try all you like, I'll keep...
Feb 13, 2019
Hi. I'm TFP. I like to write stuff. A lot of it ends up on this website in the form of a review or game of the year list you may or may not have read. Today I thought I'd try something a little different. Twitch Prime, the service in which Amazon decides that if you link an Amazon Prime account to a Twitch account , they'll give you free games, decided it was going to throw Final Fantasy XIV: A...
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